Humans and animals have been and will be compared for many years. Are humans animal-like? Are animals human-like? There may be a thin line between the two but there are also factors that keep them separate. Animals have the instinct to survive but humans use technology to do so. Animals often live together in large groups without leadership and without distinction between each other. Humans tend to have individualistic ideas which separate them from other humans. Some humans are considered leaders because they have a strong belief that other people agree with. A simple distinction between both groups is that humans depend on organization where as animals do not. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells presents the reader with two groups, the Morlocks and the Eloi. In the eyes of the Time Traveller, the Morlocks are animal-like and the Eloi are human-like when in fact just the opposite is so.
The Eloi have less human-like characteristics than the Morlocks. They wander in herds like sheep or cattle and just float where the current of the group carries them. They don't have any sense of direction or purpose, unlike humans, who make their life goal to serve a purpose in society and in the world. The Eloi serve no other purpose then to be eaten therefore they are not human but a crop cultivated by the Morlocks. The Eloi are in one big group without a leader or a ruler. They also don't have a sense of community much like a group of wild animals. A herd of zebras gallops through the desert because they are being chased by lions. If one zebra is caught by the predator, they will leave it behind and never look back. They have the instinct to protect themselves but not each other. If one of the Eloi gets hurt or killed, the rest of the group moves on just like the rest of the zebras would. In one instance, all of the Eloi are down by the river when a small one, Weena, starts getting carried away by the current.
